Rates and types of events reported to established incident reporting systems in two US hospitals

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 164-168

  Nuckols, Teryl K ^a,b   Bell, Douglas S ^a,b   Liu, Honghu ^a,b   Paddock, Susan M ^b   Hilborne, Lee H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL SERVICE; HUMAN; INCIDENT REPORT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRESCRIPTION; PREVENTIVE MEDICINE; QUALITY CONTROL; RATING SCALE; CLASSIFICATION; COMMUNITY HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; IATROGENIC DISEASE; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MEDICAL ERROR; MEDICAL STAFF; NURSING STAFF; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; RISK MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

CALIFORNIA; DATABASES; DISCLOSURE; HOSPITALS, COMMUNITY; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; IATROGENIC DISEASE; MEDICAL ERRORS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSING STAFF, HOSPITAL; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PROGRAM EVALUATION; RISK MANAGEMENT; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250876345     PISSN: 14753898     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qshc.2006.019901     Document Type: Article

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